Book · by Hilary Mantel
How many pages is Wolf Hall?
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel has a median of 653 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 651 to 672 pages.
Median pages
653
13 editions counted
Range
532–973
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
12h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
180k
at 275 words per page
How long will Wolf Hall take you?
Reading time
11 h 31 min
At 30 min a day
24 days
At 1 hour a day
12 days
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 13 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 43 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 672 | OL57519080M |
| 2020 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 672 | OL29484539M |
| 2019 | 4th Estate | Paperback | 653 | OL32496114M |
| 2015 | Picador | Paperback | 604 | OL27181235M |
| 2015 | Fourth Estate | Mass Market Paperback | 653 | OL31462646M |
| 2012 | Large Print Press | – | 973 | OL27142587M |
| 2011 | Harper Perennial | Paperback | 653 | OL36627489M |
| 2009 | Fourth Estate | – | 651 | OL23680795M |
| 2009 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 672 | OL34431931M |
| 2009 | Holt & Company, Henry | – | 560 | OL29584020M |
| 2009 | Henry Holt and Co. | Hardcover | 532 | OL23230303M |
| 2009 | HarperCollins Publishers Limited | – | 672 | OL34431790M |
| 2009 | HarperCollins Pub. | – | 651 | OL38221350M |
Questions
- How many pages is Wolf Hall?
- About 653 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 532 to 973 pages.
- How long does it take to read Wolf Hall?
- About 11 h 31 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 24 days.
- How many words is Wolf Hall?
- Roughly 180,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.
Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).